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I am watching episode 11 now, and I have to take a break, because it's too much. I have already complained how this season turned Choi Gyeong Gu and Park Jin Eon, aerospace engineers and the most intelligent and educated members of the Rainbow team, into a couple of incompetent clowns. And here we are again! Gyeong Gu does another dumb thing, and then Kim Do-gi says a basic obvious thing, like it's some kind of revelation. I am so annoyed, you wouldn't believe. I'm not angry or mad, because it's just a TV show, but I am being really, really annoyed right now.

I know about the cast issues. Well, I have seen 4 episodes and I can say it's both. The show is mediocre in terms of performances (from pretty bad to pretty good) and subpar in term of writing.

Oh, thanks.

Can someone explain me the scene with the Baek siblings and their mother's memorial scene. Why weren't the middle sister bowing? She was just standing at the door of the room and watching at her brothers. I Is it a gender thing? think I remember daughters doing it for their late mothers in other Korean shows. Was it some kind of statement from her? She seemed to be loyal to Ki-tae in the next scene of the supper, so she wouldn't challenge him like this.

The show is pretty great, and it may become the best K-drama of 2025 for me. Can they stick the landing of the season and the show in general? I had some hope for Nine Puzzles (both shows are from Disney+), but it didn't stick the landing, the ending was predictable, but unsatisfying at the same time. Tempest also had its highs, but the lows were too low, and I ending and motivations of the characters were very underwhelming, even disappointing.

This show has had spme flaws, and it remains to be seen, if those flaws are fatal. I like they made it a bit of competence porn. Like. there isn't anything superheroic or extraordinary, just people doing their jobs properly. So I thought the certain actions of Jang Gun Yeong toward the ending of the episode 2 had some hidden agenda. No, it happened to be just a mistake, and example of incompetence and negligence. It's all double hijacking once again.

Hyun Bin has been immaculate, it might become my favourite male performance of the year (the female one is Dear X, of course): charismatic, charming, precise (I want to see how the character changes in different circumstances, so we'll see). Jung Woo Sung's performance is a bit peculiar, especially his manner of laughter is weird and a bit uncanny., But I hope it's a future plot point, and as much a sign of his hereditary mental issues (his father has been in an asylum for 20 years) as his dogged determination at work. that's why he doesn't fit (someone may say he is normal, it's the "normal" society that's actually mental).

I also like some other things, Maybe they are common knowledge for Koreans, Japanese and other Asians, but they aren't very well known for Westerners. Like the structure and Korean origin of a huge part of Japanese yakuza. Or interesting cooperation of North Korean, South Korean and Japanese special services in the illegal drug industry despite complicated historical relationships between countries.

>quitting alcohol and coffee

Good for him. Is it newsworthy though?

To be honest, I would be okay with Rainbow Taxi eliminating villains. Just show me a consistent and plausible character ark leading to that. I would believe in it in season 2, but they made a step back and turned the season into something light-hearted with music performances and whatnot. Or it might have been some events at the beginning of season 3 shocking the team, so they became a bit unhinged. That would work for me too.

But it didn't happen, and there is no main storyline in season 3, like in season 1 and 2. It's just a vigilant procedural now, a collection of unconnected stories from one vigilant's life with some secondary, almost useless colleagues. So there isn't any space for character growth, progression or even the opposite, regression and spiraling into righteous vengeful insanity. Things just happen to the main character, and that's it.

Well, we see it with ratings and score. Season 1 and season 2 had 8.8 and 8.9 on MDL, but season 3 has had just 8.2 (and it was 8.1 a few weeks ago). I don't know if it's made up by streaming and international numbers, but ratings of season 2 in South Korea were between 13 and 18%, season 2 finale got 21% nationally, season 1 was between 12 and 15%, season 3 barely gets about 10-11%. The audience decreased 1.5, maybe even 2 times. Numbers are still very good, but they aren't outstanding anymore. But again, maybe viewership specifically depends on streaming more than few years ago, I don't know.

She gave up. Furthermore, she gave up long time ago. Kim Do-Gi had said it a few minutes earlier, "Everyone has their failures, but you have been spiraling just after one failure." She could have made a real successful agency, she had an eye for potential idols and knew how to train them. In sport many successful coaches are former athletes who didn't reach real success or realize their potential, because of various unfortunate circumstances (like accidents, injuries and so on). But she decided to harm young girls to make them "pay" for what had happened to her decades ago (when majority of them haven't even been born). So it was easy for her to give up once again.

Well, it's not even "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth," it's "we must repay them a hundredfold," like they said in the cars in episode 10.

Well, I am not an author of the original commentary, so I didn't write "many," just gave the first example I remembered. Someone would add Kim Soo-hyun. But I just don't know, if he is a rapist, and I don't want to label anyone without solid proofs.

That happens all over the world, sure. Look at Hollywood and Epstein files, for example. I'm not Korean and I don't think South Korea is worse than an average country in that way. Actually, in my opinion, it's quite the opposite. I think maybe Koreans should be more moderate about celebrities: less obsessed and worshipping, but more tolerant and forgiving as a society. Especially if a person had already been punished for their actions, or if nothing has been proven yet (like it happened to Lee Sun-kyun),

I don't like Choi Gyeong Gu and Park Jin Eon are reduced to a pair of dumb clowns in this season. They are aerospace engineers and inventors and used to be arguably the most intelligent members of the team. They also had their own motives and agenda in Rainbow Taxi. But in this season they exist to ask dumb and/or obvious questions for Kim Do Gi to say plot points for the audience and be laughed at in questionable situations. They have never saved the day actually, and Kim Do Gi could easily work without them. Pyo Ye Jin and Kim Eui Sung have become glorified extras. They also don't have a lot of to do with the plots. I love Lee Je Hoon, but the team spirit is gone in season 3, it's basically a one-man show. I blame writers of the show. Maybe it's really for the best to end it now. Or at least something has to be done to the main cast dynamic (for me chemistry is still there), we need more real team work.

Lee Kyung Young and the statutory rape of a minor, for example.

I see why the network has been sitting on the show for three years after it was shot. It's uneven, the storyline is disjointed, characters are a bit cliched. Yoo Ji Tae still has his charisma, and it's probably the best part of the show. Episodes are short, the first episode is 44 minutes with the intro and credits, the second one is even shorter, about 35 minutes. It's very weird for K-dramas.

I am not sure I am going to finish the show. I'll give it another chance next week.

Not so much about Netflix. They definitely prioritize quantity over quality and also deliberately make their content dumber (for "second-screen watchers"). Kingdom was great, but the quality of storytelling has been decreasing since, and I think it's intentional. But they do have a lot of money, so they can allow great actors whose performances elevate the dramas and movies. Disney+ is very uneven, it's hit-or-miss.

Those films aren't superhits, because they are about politics. But they may or may not be reasonably popular, which is true for aformentioned movies. I don't remember exactly, but either Inside Men made me watch Stranger (which was my first K-drama) in late 2010s, or it was the opposite. Anyway that movie was one of the first pieces of K-content I saw and I was led to K-content by it to some degree. I liked The Man Standing Next very much, it shows universal mechanics of coups d'etat (and 12.12: The Day from another director completed it perfectly).

I am reserved about the screenwriter though. A Normal Family was a fine movie elevated by the great cast, but Silent Sea was pretty dumb for sci-fi, I dropped it at the beginning. However promos for Made in Korea look promising.

Click "Episode Guide" on the top of this page, you will see the schedule.

Week 1: Episodes 1 and 2.
Week 2: Episodes 3 and 4.
Week 3: Episode 5.
Week 4 (January 14): Episode 6.

The last trailer of Made in Korea has 1.2 million views on Disney+ Korea YouTube channel. The previous one has 1.1 million. The first teaser (shorter than 1 minute) has about 973 thousand views. It's huge and on the same level of The Manipulated : 1.1M, 2.2M, 500+K for three trailers there, despite being more "boring" for a common viewer (politics instead of an action-filled revenge drama). The Manipulated was more anticipated among the international audience, but I am pretty sure it is going to get strong ratings at home.

I may or may not be disappointed, but the show has become the most anticipated K-drama of the year for me. There have been some mediocre to good to great dramas this year (often elevated by the cast and performances), but Made in Korea might become the best one, For me personally, of course, everything is subjective. I have huge hopes for this.

I beg to differ. The Netflix way is bad for many viewers AND for shows, especially for high-profile productions with huge budgets. Weekly release allows shows to stay in public discussion much longer. If all episodes are released at once the show is usually forgotten two weeks later. There are no discussions, no thoughts, people just eat some chunk of slop... sorry, of "content" and move to another chunk of slop. It's may be okay for mid-TV, but auteurs trying to say something and deliver some message, some ideas, some information it's a failure.

Made in Korea probably doesn't belong to that genre, but it's an absolute crime against mystery box shows, including detective shows, whodunit shows with viewers guessing, making up theories and discussing them as a half of fun.

And finally everyone has a different pace of watching because their personal and work lives are different. You just can't enter Internet and avoid spoliers in case of the popular show released at once. But you also can't discuss it properly, because everybody is on different stage at the moment. Majority of viewers catch up in a week or two, but the show isn't really relevant anymore, because the next chunk of slop has just been released. One, maybe two episodes set comfortable pace for most of viewers.